Maxney explained the reason for the attack on the defacement page. "Genocide in Palestinian and Genocide in Easter Turkestan," he wrote.

In a statement given to Softpedia's Eduard Kovacs, an Avast representative made it clear that the site isn't directly connected to Avast. "[This] is not an official site and does not belong to Avast Software," the representative wrote. "Instead, it has been owned and operated for many years by Procello, a German reseller."